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Fifth Circuit Holds That Foreign Forum Selection Clauses Are Enforceable In Insurance Policy

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The following day, Noble House advised Underwriters at Lloyd’s, its insurer, of the casualty, whose policy allegedly covered the claim. Noble House purchased the policy from Underwriters by way of a Texas-based insurance broker in February 2018. District Court for the Southern District of Texas in November of 2021. May 1, 2023).

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Riding to the Danger Zone: U.S. Fifth Circuit Panel Considers the Zone-of-Danger Test for Maritime Emotional Distress

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20-30300, 2021 WL 96168, a three-judge panel of the U.S. On January 11, 2021, the Fifth Circuit panel affirmed. Hercules Offshore, Inc., Hercules Offshore, Inc., 2021 WL 96168 at *2. 2021 WL 96168 at *2. 2021 WL 96168 at *3. 2021 WL 96168 at *4. In In re Deepwater Horizon , No. See Barker v.

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11th Circuit Finds Not All Disputed Medical Evidence Must be Construed in a Seaman’s Favor

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Mandara Spa (Hawaii), LLC , 20-13449, 2021 U.S. The court noted that to expand Vaughan ’s limited scope to resolve all ambiguities in medical evidence in favor of every seaman would strip district courts of their ability to make credibility determinations when confronted with conflicting evidence. LEXIS 29285 (11 th Cir.

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Fifth Circuit Identifies Potential Conflict with Supreme Court on Jones Act Seaman Test

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In August 2018, while working on a rig owned by Enterprise Offshore Drilling, LLC (“Enterprise”), Sanchez was injured when he tripped on a pipe welded to the deck. Enterprise Offshore Drilling LLC , 376 F.Supp. Enterprise Offshore Drilling LLC, 2019 WL 2515307 (Jun. He worked day shifts and returned home every evening.

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